JULIE SALAMON

Author. Journalist. Storyteller.

I’ve been lucky to have a career doing what I love—figuring out the world through writing.  That’s included the privilege of working with and learning from brilliant editors at distinguished publishing houses, newspapers and magazines.

My professional life began at The Wall Street Journal, as a business reporter for five years and then, for eleven years, as the newspaper’s film critic. I started writing books. There have been 12 of them, fiction and non-fiction, for adults and children (the children’s books in collaboration with the marvelous illustrator Jill Weber.  Our latest, One More Story, Tata, has just been published, summer 2024). And I am so happy to be working on a new non-fiction book for adults, for my longtime editor Ann Godoff at Penguin Press.

Along the way came a return to daily journalism for a few years, as a critic and reporter for The New York Times, My work has appeared in several magazines, including The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Town and Country and Avenue as well as several anthologies.

During the pandemic, I found a new storytelling medium. In early 2020 Audible Originals asked me to write and perform an audio- memoir about my Appalachian girlhood [UNLIKELY FRIENDS].  A year later, Campside Media and Turner Classic Movies commissioned me to revisit my Hollywood tale THE DEVIL’s CANDY as a podcast series, Season Two of TCM’s The Plot Thickens. Both were incredible experiences with the pleasure of working with extraordinary young producers. THE DEVIL’s CANDY podcast was recognized by The New York Times and NPR and others as among the top podcasts of 2021!  And in 2023, The Hollywood Reporter placed THE DEVIL’s CANDY at #25 on its list of “100 Best Movie Books of All Time!”

Community means a lot to me, in writing and in life. I am board chair of BRC, a leading non-profit organization in New York City that provides housing and treatment services to thousands of homeless adults. I am also on the board of  the American Jewish Historical Society, where I host a monthly interview series called AT LUNCH.

My education has come from many places, with degrees are from North Adams High School in Adams County, Ohio (1971); Tufts University (1975); New York University School of Law (1978).

Downtown Manhattan has been my home since graduating from college. That’s where my husband (and toughest and best editor) Bill Abrams and I  raised our children Roxie and Eli along with three cats and two dogs (not all at once!)  My first eighteen years were spent in Seaman, Ohio, a rural village of 800, where my father was the town doctor. He and my mother, Czech immigrants and Holocaust survivors, taught me and my sister Suzy to keep moving toward our destination, even when we weren’t quite sure what it was.

Photo credit: Winnie Au

Agent: Dorian Karchmar, William Morris Endeavor

http://www.davesaysmoviesmatter.com/julie-salamon-the-devils-candy-revisited.html

Authorlink interview (2001)

New York Times profile (1996)

Philanthropy News Digest (2004)

New York Times profile (2021)

https://shepherd.com/book/the-devils-candy